RE: [gentoo-user] Which wireless cardbus?
-Original Message- From: Stroller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 February 2007 14:22 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which wireless cardbus? [Stuff] I've had good luck with RALink based cards (I have a PCMCIA Asus WL107g if I remember the model correctly - early (~2005ish) drivers were utterly horrendous but later ones were far far better). I currently have an Intel IPW3945 if I have the model right - which is an onboard chipset built into the laptop so not sure if it's around in PC card form as well. It was easy enough set up with WPA and so forth. Hope this perhaps helps the OP and/or others. -- djn I do not represent anyone else in emails I send to this list. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which wireless cardbus?
On 19 Feb 2007, at 23:15, Mick wrote: ... You don't state which model of Belkin you tried, but I can assure you that they do a set (USB, cardbus, PCI) of 802.11g cards that are excellently supported by the rt2500 drivers. These are excellent, are OSS you can get them with `emerge rt2500`. Well, I didn't want to bore you - I think I may have already posted about my troubles with it in the past. It is a Belkin USB WiFi adaptor, Model No. K7SF5D7050A, which seems to have a RaLink chipset ... However, if you have any ideas to make my Belkin USB work again then I'll use that voucher for something else. :) I can't comment on that, although it doesn't particularly surprise me. I know the drivers for the USB RaLink chipsets are less mature than those for the PCI Cardbus cards - when I first started using those (100% success on the Belkin cards under Gentoo, very easy to get going) work on the BSD USB drivers was only just beginning. I recommend this card, but if you're outside the UK contact in advance regarding shipping: http://networkned.co.uk/Belkin_Cardbus.php FULL DISCLOSURE: I am involved with this supplier. Having been burned once I would rather go for something which has matured enough to be in the kernel, if possible, but thank you for the suggestion all the same. I don't think you're going to be terribly lucky with that. I'm only familiar with the 3 drivers I mentioned - and I know there's an OSS driver available for an Intel chipset, too - but of those 3 only the prism54 was in the main kernel last time I checked, and cards with that chipset that are getting quite hard to get hold of. I have never seen a prism54 cardbus card. I appreciate your concerns, but honestly a rt2500 cardbus (or PCI) card is a safe bet - these drivers are very mature. I'm guessing that driver design for USB devices is more complicated /or widely less well-understood than for devices using the more traditional PCI or cardbus busses (in fact, I think PCI cardbus are substantially the same from the computer's point-of-view). I'd be very surprised if you were to plug on of these cards into your machine and `emerge rt2500 modprobe rt2500 iwconfig` failed to show it. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which wireless cardbus?
On 18 Feb 2007, at 23:19, Mick wrote: ... I am trying to find out which WiFi cardbus to buy for my laptop. I didn't have much joy with a Belkin and would like to get a card which has a chipset that is supported well in Linux. Which chipsets have the more mature drivers? You don't state which model of Belkin you tried, but I can assure you that they do a set (USB, cardbus, PCI) of 802.11g cards that are excellently supported by the rt2500 drivers. These are excellent, are OSS you can get them with `emerge rt2500`. I've also used cards which use the prism54 madwifi drivers, which both do master mode (for building a wireless access point or base- station under Linux) and are both excellent. Jean Tourrilhes' page at HP.com is quite up-to-date on the situation with the prism54 drivers, I think, and I've never seen a cardbus card using this chipset, anyway, but if you can get hold of a card that's well supported by prism54 then it's very easy to use and the driver is in the main kernel tree. The Atheros chipset supported by madwifi is capable of doing 802.11a as well as b g - not all cards do a, but they're not too difficult to find. madwifi-ng is a little non-standard in the way you configure the card (so I guess it might not work so well with graphical wireless configuration utilities) but it offers some more advanced features (VAPs, or virtual access-points in master-mode, for instance, allow you to have WEP unencrypted interfaces on the same card; hence with iptables you can set different firewall rules for ath0 ath1). http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hardware http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11ag.html#Prism54 I recommend this card, but if you're outside the UK contact in advance regarding shipping: http://networkned.co.uk/Belkin_Cardbus.php FULL DISCLOSURE: I am involved with this supplier. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which wireless cardbus?
On Monday 19 February 2007 11:43, Stroller wrote: On 18 Feb 2007, at 23:19, Mick wrote: ... I am trying to find out which WiFi cardbus to buy for my laptop. I didn't have much joy with a Belkin and would like to get a card which has a chipset that is supported well in Linux. Which chipsets have the more mature drivers? You don't state which model of Belkin you tried, but I can assure you that they do a set (USB, cardbus, PCI) of 802.11g cards that are excellently supported by the rt2500 drivers. These are excellent, are OSS you can get them with `emerge rt2500`. Well, I didn't want to bore you - I think I may have already posted about my troubles with it in the past. It is a Belkin USB WiFi adaptor, Model No. K7SF5D7050A, which seems to have a RaLink chipset. I have had some success running it with the rt2x00- drivers from CVS and USE=rt2500usb (the stable rt2500 crashed my system every time). However, after Christmas the rt2x00 driver has not worked and keeps giving me kernel panics every time I plug it in the USB port, e.g.: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=18890#18890 I suspect it may have something to do with the 2.6.19 kernel. All different CVS builds that I have tried crashed. Tried to install pre-Christmas builds from the archives, also crashed. Hence I'm fed up being without WiFi for so long and thought of using an Amazon voucher I have handy to get myself a nice cardbus; but this time I would like to make sure that I have something which definitely works with Linux. However, if you have any ideas to make my Belkin USB work again then I'll use that voucher for something else. :) Thank you all for your helpful advice and links. I recommend this card, but if you're outside the UK contact in advance regarding shipping: http://networkned.co.uk/Belkin_Cardbus.php FULL DISCLOSURE: I am involved with this supplier. Having been burned once I would rather go for something which has matured enough to be in the kernel, if possible, but thank you for the suggestion all the same. -- Regards, Mick pgp8DC7XEoaiN.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Which wireless cardbus?
This must be one of the more often repeated Qs on many forums. I am trying to find out which WiFi cardbus to buy for my laptop. I didn't have much joy with a Belkin and would like to get a card which has a chipset that is supported well in Linux. Which chipsets have the more mature drivers? Is there a list somewhere which is kept up to date - a lot of what I found in Google is of historical importance only. Your insight on this would be much appreciated. :) -- Regards, Mick pgppDUBDrLl6i.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Which wireless cardbus?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Mick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This must be one of the more often repeated Qs on many forums. I am trying to find out which WiFi cardbus to buy for my laptop. I didn't have much joy with a Belkin and would like to get a card which has a chipset that is supported well in Linux. Which chipsets have the more mature drivers? Is there a list somewhere which is kept up to date - a lot of what I found in Google is of historical importance only. Atheros is the best supported chipset -- through madwifi-ng drivers -- afaik, I have a D-Link card with an atheros chipset and I never had any problems. Here is a nice site with a list of supported cards: http://linux-wless.passys.nl/ dunno if it's uptodate though Your insight on this would be much appreciated. :) - -- Ali Polatel (hawking) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawking.nonlogic.org/ gpg: F0186CA2 fp: 7110 01E2 F8B6 83A2 AC52 1D9F 986B 76E1 F018 6CA2 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF2T7CmGt24fAYbKIRAshUAJwK3E8LOKX9uaz5WOSj5fvzhjEvVwCeMj6e sHmVRiNakhfs8JtE1wzf3nA= =Hrc8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
